The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money and Management
About Various Lines.

After seventeen years spent in the service
of the Central railroad, j. 2. Foster, the
agent at Griffin, has sent in his resignation,
but will continue to serve until July Is, by
which time the road expects to have secured
another man.
The Northeastern Railroad Company
have ordered two large passenger locomo-
tives from the Baldwin works at Philadel-
phia. The new engines have already been
shipped and are expected daily at the car
shops in Florence, S. c., where they will be
made ready for the road. They are both
1S-inch cylinder engines and will be used
for pulling the fast passenger trains this
winter.
Americas Recorder: a Owing to the
rapidly increasing business of the road, the
Americas, Preston and Lumpkin authori-
ties have found it necessary to order large
number of new freight cars built at once
With the exception of the wheels the entire
work of building the cars will be done in
the company's shops here, and will no
doubt be credit upon the workmen who
undertake the job. The shop bows fiatter
themselves that they can build anything
here that runs on weeels, from pole car to
a locomotive.
A called meeting of the citizens of Gil
mer county was held in the court house in
EihJay, Saturday evening, Sept. 3, in the
interest of the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad. The chairman was empowered to
appoint committee of five to draft resolu-
tions, which he did. After an interesting
and animated discussion as to the impor-
lance of immediate action in this matter, it
was unanimously agreed by the house that
a committee be appointed to bear to the
Legislature petition of the citizens and as
much as possible, to show how greatly that
section of the State stood in need of the
passage of the bill granting the desired ex-
tension of the road.
The Macon Netos says that the officials of
the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad
are very enthusiastic over the early compile
ton of this line, and work will be pushed
very rapidly from this point southwark. A
large force of hands is at work and the out
looks are very encouraging A very elegant
prospectus has recently been issued, and the
map accompanying it shows the line of the
road to begin at Macon and terminate at
Palatka, Fla, though it has not yet been
determined whether Palatka will positively
be made the terminal point. Negotiations
are pending between the company and the
town authorities of Palatka relative to the
question.
1t is said that the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad spent fully S2O,0o0OO0 in their
fruitless effort to get to New York. The
first great expense for the road between
Philadelphia and Baltimore dates back to
1878, when Mr.. John w. Garrett, who had
bill pending in the Delaware Legislature
authorizing him to build a road through
that State, endeavored to purchase the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railroad. If he had succeeded, he would
have placed the Pennsylvania completely
in his power. He thought he had succeeded
and announced that he had, but the Penn
sylvania road secured big block of the
stock and got possession of the line. The
Baltimore and Ohio Company, it is said,
lost between $500, 600 and $500, 900 by the
transaction. That was the beginning of the
vast expenditure of money, since thrown
away.